ACS is selected as 1 of 20 finalists in the Marketplace on Innovative Financial Solutions for Development Competition sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank, and the Agence Francaise de Developpement.
Dr. Donlan presents a talk on why conservation needs high finance - Risk, Return on Investment, and Incentives - at Amherst College. Click here to watch a video of the presentation.
ACS’s Jamie Mandel, Josh Donlan, and Chris Wilcox co-author a paper in the journal Conservation Letters that introduces environmental mortgages - a debt-investment approach to biodiversity conservation. Click here for a copy of the paper.
ACS’s Josh Donlan is a co-author on a study published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology that explores resources recovery and eco-industrial development in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. Click here for a copy of the paper.
ACS’s Chris Wilcox and Josh Donlan publish a response to criticisms toward marine biodiversity offsets in the journal Conservation Biology. Click here for a copy of the paper.
ACS’s Josh Donlan, Jamie Mandel, and Chris Wilcox write in SEED Magazine about why environmentalism needs high finance. They argue that conservationists may wish money were no object, but if nature is to survive, economic incentives and biological imperatives must align.
Conservationists are restoring a living tortoise fossil to its prehistoric range. Can we recreate nature? Journalist James MacKinnon talks to ACS director Josh Donlan and others for his story on the Bolson Tortoise reintoduction project and rewilding in this month’s issue of The Walrus.
The Christian Science Monitor covers biodiversity derivatives - Greens take a cue from financiers, environmental derivatives encourage creative, proactive conservation.
Wired Magazine covers biodiversity derivatives - To save animals, put a price on them.
Biodiversity conservation strategies should include economic costs and incentive structures. In the journal, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, ACS’s Jamie Mandel and Josh Donlan propose one way to do so. “A derivative approach to endangered species conservation” describes how modified derivative products - biodiversity derivatives - could be designed to finance species recover efforts and align the interests of landowners and conservationists, making private interventions more likely. Such financial instruments could create markets around biodiversity conservation, providing an insurance policy against species jeopardy while also providing incentives for environmental stewardship. A copy of the paper is available here.
Josh Donlan and colleagues published a paper this month in the Journal of Wildlife Management describing the recent restoration of Santiago Island, Galapagos. Project Isabela was the world’s largest island restoration to date. Click here for a copy of the paper.
Emma Marris of Nature Magazine covered the story in Nature News. And the Brazailian newspaper Fohla de S. Paulo covered the story.
Directors Josh Donlan and Chris Wilcox publish an essay in the journal Biological Invasions entitled Integrating invasive mammal eradications and biodiversity offsets for fisheries bycatch: conservation opportunities and challenges for seabirds and sea turtles.
Josh Donlan writes about Pleistocene Dreams and rewilding in the July/August issue of Orion Magazine.
Josh Donlan and Chris Wilcox publish the report “A path to a return on investment framework for island restoration with a focus on seabirds” for the Commonweal Ocean Policy Program.